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9/11Dreams and Media: Massurrealism's Quiet Legacy
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- Publication date
- 2025
- Usage
- Attribution-NoDerivs 4.0 International
- Topics
- Massurrealism, James Seehafer, New England, classic art techniques, digital art, surrealism, 1990s art movements, Boston, East Village art scene, media critique, post-internet art, urban art, visual culture, digital collage, Gen Z Nostalgia
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- opensource
- Language
- English
- Item Size
- 6.2M
A small but prescient late 20th-century art movement, Massurrealism is the amalgamation of surrealism with the visual language of mass media and emerging digital tools. This short article touches the origins of the genre—from its roots in remote New England to the internet platforms that helped spread it to various audiences around the world. Massurrealism has it's connection as well to early digital culture — a retro internet aesthetic indicative of Gen Z nostalgia, Y2K, and today’s post-internet art
Article includes references to early massurrealist websites, artist collectives, its presence in popular culture (as of 2025), and its influence on contemporary digital aesthetics.
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Archived Links (incomplete) :
https://archive.org/details/UrbanArtMinuteMassurrealism
https://web.archive.org/web/20030413165956/http://www.msnewyork.net/0002.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20050211230943/ppkdesign.net/
https://web.archive.org/web/20250121222508/http://www.massurrealism.org/
https://web.archive.org/web/20050828092436/http://massurrealism.de/
https://web.archive.org/web/20250528225305/https://notsky.de/
https://web.archive.org/web/20241005015219/https://massurrealismo.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20220522051625/http://massurrealist.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20090126174847/http://massurrealism.co.uk/Lobby.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20010419152840/http://www.massurrealism.spb.ru/
https://web.archive.org/web/20230331184724/https://untappd.com/b/hourglass-brewing-hyperreality-massurrealism/4595047
https://archive.org/details/45-rpm.-es-2013
